13.
Caesar, having received as hostages the first men of the
state, and even the two sons of king Galba himself; and all the
arms in the town having been delivered up, admitted the Suessiones
to a surrender, and led his army against the Bellovaci. Who, when
they had conveyed themselves and all their possessions into the town Galled
Bratuspantium, and Caesar with his
army was about five miles distant from that town, all the old men, going out of
the town, began to stretch out their hands to Caesar,
and to intimate by their voice that they would throw themselves on his
protection and power, nor would contend in arms against the Roman people. In like manner, when he had come up to the town, and
there pitched his camp, the boys and the women from the wall, with outstretched
hands, after their custom, begged peace from the Romans.
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